[quoted lines by Andor Demarteau on August 14, 2001, at 23:04] Hi: >I have to agree on this, it probably are the .so files. Not that this is the topic of this list, but: The closest thing Linux has to Windows DLLs is the .so (shared object) files, but there's one very big difference. Somewhat simplistically, the global variables in a DLL persist and are shared among all the applications which use it, whereas the global variables in a Linux shared object file are private to each aplication which uses it and don't persist from one invocation of that application to the next. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | I believe that the Bible is the Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | Word of God. Please contact me EMail: dave@mielke.cc | Canada K2A 1H7 | if you're concerned about Hell.